Meaning of どく in sentence I have a sentence in Haruki Murakami's which reads: > **** I understand the first part of the sentence as: > May it be metaphysical or symbolical, at the same time it's like a thousand razors... ripping apart... But I don't get the meaning of that part. I don't believe it's , as it's written in hiragana.

**** is the []{} (continuative form) of the adjective **** / = " ** _sharp_** ".

"sharp" ⇒ "sharply"

It is conjugated into its so that it can modify the following verb []{}[]{} = "to rip up".

One cannot say **** . I feel like I am talking about almost everyday here (along with relative clauses). Wonder how properly those are taught in Japanese-as-a-foreign-language.

Finally, []{}("poison") or any other **noun** will not fit in grammatically.